the communist party. where do the customers go? you have to ask the communist party.s was really bad in the past year. >> reporter: he is not alone. it has been a turbulent year for many people in china, economic growth is at its slowest in 25 years. six kilometers away the most important event in china's political calendar is playing out. china, the last major communist nation has changed considerably over the last 30 years but the grandeur of the national people's congress remained, 3,000 delegates from across the nation attend. china's premier league opened the congress with a report on the last year and was mildly critical of the communist party. >> translator: there are still inadequacies in the work of the government, some reforms, policies and measures have not been fully implemented. >> reporter: he went on to say more work needs to be done on government corruption and misconduct and then it's not just china's economy that is slowing, it's global. >> this is the great hall of the people and what is going to take place in here over the next ten days for the mos

business is slow. >> who is my boss, the communist party. where did the customers go, you have to ask the communist party. business is bad in the past year. >> he's not alone, it's been a turbulent year in china. six kilometres away, the most important event in the political calendar is playing out. china, the last nation changed considerably over the last 30 years, but the groanedure of the national people's congress remained. 3,000 across the nation attend. china's premier opened the congress with a report on the past year, and was critical of the party. >> there's inconsistencies in the work. government. some reforms, policies and measures have not been implemented. >> he went on to say more work needs to be done on government corruption and conduct. it's not just the economy that is slowing. it's global. >> this is what is going to take place for the next 10 days, for the most part it is political theatre. it's thou they were going to be made. >> it's mainly a place they put out the big messages including propaganda for public consumptio

communist resurgence. united russia headed by the president is putin's political party. he singed out the communist as the main electoral office. ultimately, russia's parliament is a tightly managed body with almost no room for genuine opposition. political analyst still thinks russia's poor economic situation can hurt united russia >> the plan is not to make any changes, not to take any risk, to keep very old-fashioned party system, including communist who are pretty loyal to the kremlin, but not to let them to get too many votes which will make them more autonomous. >> reporter: i was told that the kremlin has learned lessons from 2011 parliamentary elections when obvious vote rigging kick started months of mass protests. he said putin would rather lose seats than go through that again. the question is can the communists put a dent on the parliament. we will have to wait what the consequences will be, but it is certainly something russia's power elite with worried about >>> you can always head to our website for all the latest news and analysis. the address is on your s

. >> my boss, the communist party. where did the customers go? you have to ask the communist party. business was bad the past year. >> he is not alone. it's been a turbulent year for many in china. economic growth at its islowest in 25 years. six kilometers away, the most important event is playing out. china, the last communist nation has changed considerably over the last years. the granted you're of the national people's congress has remained. 3,000 delegates from across the nation attend. china's premier opened the report on the last year and was mildly critical of the communist party. >> there is still inadequacies in the work of the government. some reforms, policies and measures have not been fully implemented. >> he went on to say more work needs to be done on government corruption and misconduct. and that it's not just china, economy that's slowing. it's global. >> this is the great hall. what's going to take place for the most part is political theatre. that's because the most important decisions of how chinese run in government are even made by top officials. it's mainly

he was via the communist party and a grant to be a spy. he ran the numbers by rings in a in d.c.. or the end of the 30s he had a profound crisis, broke with the party, came out the other side for while. he worked for "time" magazine. he wrote a lot of anti-communist material and then he wrote this great biography called witness about his journey and william f. buckley founded the national review is the conservative magazine in the 1950s. chambers was one of the people he tapped to be one of the founding editors and was a big influence on buckley and generations of conservatives. the next one is a guy named -- named james burnham who was raised in an affluent family and the wealthy subject -- in a wealthy suburb of chicago. he went to england on the scholarship came back to new york in 1929 and thought he was going to be, got a job at what would later become in later become and my good buddy was going to devote his life to writing about philosophy and literature. he was kind of a product of the 1920s in that sense. what a lot of artists and intellectuals are not that interested in

in the communist party members. but isn't that comment. common and and the world in which my mom grew up in with passover and with the questions of the activities from those members of the party. and for some reason to bureaucratic issues. a number of school teachers were fired. but more broadly a fairly artistic part that was a noble thing to be an end to go through -- to this event. and the legacy hasn't been examined very much but with that left-wing household even though there were not necessarily identified for a while it was of a pretty simple narrative. it started to become more complicated. with those testimonials from survivors. what i notice repeatedly was people saying if they were liberated to said that was in the end of the story with the imminent danger there was whole other story that i started to learn about the horrific evils of what it meant to have this legacy of communist party membership with those battles with those labor unions to get involved with the student active coalition. but i do remember this relatively early

the shop was selling titles critical of the communist party.he book sellers were later found to have been detained by authorities in mainland china. two have returned to hong kong, but details surrounding the cases have not been revealed. although hong kong residents are allowed a high level of autonomy under the one country/two systems principle, the chief executive is appointed by the chinese government. the book sellers' detention is raising concerns among people of hong kong that freedom of speech as well as the region's judicial power are under threat. >>> commuters in tokyo are welcoming a new train equipped with more room. and a cutting-edge control system. it's the first time in 13 years the city's main line is getting new cars. it's to help accommodate the large influx of visitors for the tokyo olympics in 2020. railway fans crowded the station when the train began operating. the train is equipped with more priority seats for elderly passengers and larger spaces for baby strollers and luggage, and it's controlled by a new system that a

the communist party. where did the customers go? you have to ask the communist party. business was really bad in the past year. he is not alone, it has been a turbulent year for many people in china. economic growth is at its slowest in 25 years. 6 kilometers away the most important event is being played out. china, the last major communist nation has changed considerably over the last 30 years. the people's congress has remained. 3,000 democrat gates from across the nation attend. china's premier opened the meeting and was critical of the communist party >> translation: there is still inadequacies in the work of the government. some reforms, policies and measures have not been fully implemented >> reporter: he went on to say more work needs to be done on government corruption and misconduct and that it is not just china's economy that is slowing. it is global >> reporter: this is the great haul. what is going to take lace over here is political theater. that's because the most important decisions of how china will be run and government have already been made by offici

presidents that now look back of the center left and center right but very much excluded the communist partyhich was a political accord signed in 1958. even those parties which are now looked upon by the opposition as protectors of democracy and political conclusion, a dividing point. they were also guilty of corruption. there has always been corruption in venzuela. what has happened is that under chavez, it has exploded. trans parents international, i think the fourth or 5th most corrupt country on the planet, more than haiti, slightly less than somalia. it is the biggest shipment of cocaine according to the un o d.c. and its own military is engaged with its own national airlines owned by the government engaged in drugs. >> what you say, vannessvanessa challenges. we will have you back to tell us more about it, but for now, thank you very much for sharing your analysis and, vanessa neumann? >> no problem. thank you. >>> more to come for you on "the newshour" china warns its facing a tough battle to keep economic growth on target. also looking back at the life of the leader of sudan's opposi

. >>> and the communist party making a come back in the upcoming parliamentary elections. elections. >> hello again i'm jane dutton. a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. brazilian president dilma rousseff has presented her displeasure for lu involving a former president in the current issues regarding petrobras. >>> china's biggest political event the national political congress is meeting in beijing. focusing on the five year economic plan. >>> many residents are taking advantage of the latest ceasefire in syria to start anti-government demghtse demonss again. peaceful rally asking for bashar al-assad to step down. called on all sides to honor the ceasefire which secludes i.s.i.l. and el nusra fighters. >>> it's been a week, since the ceasefire has begun and it has been broken dozens of time but the u.n. says test hopeful. >> live scenes normal in the marketplace in the city of aleppo in the northern syria. >> people are out and buying, women are even bargaining about the price. before the produce they didn't, they used to be scared. >> reporter: but no one is und

china's ruling communist party is officially atheist. technically it does allow freedom of religion, but those in approved religions must lb worship under the supervision of those faithful to the state. so tens of millions of christians meet underground in so-called family churches. this one set up in the tiny beijing apartment of this man. he spent two years in prison afte writing about church and the children. we have 30 members.n< some of us are in jail from time >> by a show of hand.a can you tell me how many have been detained for doing this, 1irhji for gathering and prying. >> wow, everyone raised their hand all of you have been detained. >> there is no justice in this country. he told us, we choose to believe in god and place our hope in his hands. >> by some estimates there are more christmas chins in china tharn than members of qtgthe communist party. we reached fought for comment or explanation but did not hear back. >> and the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. dry spray? that's fun. it's already dry! no wait time. this

[chanting] fred: observing this new interest in religion and conservation, china's communist party isnow cautiously pportingt. translator: former state counselor mr. dai bingguo spoke at the annual forum on ecological civilization and buddhist culture. translator: traditional culture promotes harmony between man and nature and encourages limited consumption and a simple way of life. we support this. we don't oppose taking from nature. we do oppose overexploitation. we want gold mountain, but we also want clear water and green mountain. gary: my chinese friends were very quick to point out that when you see the government, as we did, making some very sort of friendly noises towards organized religions, it's a bit of a surprise often for people from outside china, like how is it that this government that used to be all about atheism is now sort of very friendly towards at least a schedule of religions, particularly the traditional cultural religions like buddhism and taoism and confucianism? and the fact is that the communist party is observing that tens of millions of people are becomi

usa as the american communist party was known. she had known, lena doubtless would not have carried. she did not know a communist from a republican. [laughter] but in the 1950s, every performer who appeared at cafÉ society would be blacklisted. now, however, she was able to bring me and little teddy to new york where we all entered her childhood brooklyn home. little teddy's visit was short-lived, however. louis' cruel divorce agreement stipulated that i would live with my mother while teddy lived with our father. but my mother and i were soon to move even farther away. because of her cafÉ society success, lena had received an offer from hollywood not for the movies, but from a new nightclub called the little trock. once again, she was an overnight sensation. one man who came night after night was mgm's roger eden, the man who discovered judy garland. talent and beauty won lena a long-term hollywood contract, the first in hollywood for a black performer. but it might not have happened without world war ii. lena arrived in hollywood

the communist party. where did the customers go? you have to ask the communist party. business is bad in the past year >> reporter: he is not alone. economic growth is at its slowest in 25 years. 6 kilometers the most important event in the political calendar is playing out. china, the last major communist nation, has changed considerably over the last 30 years, but the grandeur of the national people's congress has remained. 3,000 people across the area attend. the premier opened with a speech in which he said. >> translation: there are inadequacies in the government. some measures and policies have not been implemented >> reporter: he went on to say more work needs to be done on government corruption and misconduct. it is not just the china economy slowing, but it's global. >> reporter: what will take place here is political fear. that is because the most important decisions of how china will be run and governed have already been made by top officials >> it is mainly a place where they put out the big messages, including some new propaganda messages for public consum

but the members of the delegation are mostly communist party members. analysts say they appear to be emphasizing their loyalty to beijing by displaying the badges. >>> in tu nesh yeah, militants stormed army and police facilities monday near the country's border with libya. it's believed they crossed into tunisia for the attack, which left at least 53 people dead. tunisian authorities say 35 of them were militants. the rest included soldiers and civilians. officials have imposed a curfew in the town, and are searching for other attackers. in march last year, gunmen opened fire on tourists at a museum in the nation's capital. 22 people died. since then, the country has stepped up anti-terrorism measures. the nation's leaders believe the islamic state militant group is trying to expand its presence beyond neighboring libya where analysts estimate about 5,000 of the group's fighters have been trained. >>> malaysia's influential former leader, muhammad, is stepping up pressure on prime minister najib. he's been critical over the connections to a multimillio

i can no longer follow the communist party and go down on my knees. that is very, very specific. very blunt language, and it's a measure of the pushback you're seeing by a certain number of brave journalists who are not prepared to tolerate the current crackdown on the media. of course, this is china. there's only so much they can do. we have to see this in the overall context of what's happening in the country during the past few weeks. we've had 20 people who have now been -- disappeared as the police continue their hunt for the author of an anonymous letter that appeared on the chinese weybo media portal calling on the country's president to resign. the hunt for the author of that letter is intensifying. the president regards the media as a tool of the government. it's very important that he controls the media. >> why is this the case right now? why is there an increased media crackdown? as you speak to us, adrian, we showed pictures of the president touring the media outlets and putting forward his message. >> i think it's perhaps no coincidence this crackdown is happening as

people were named for being somehow associated with the communist party. nancy davis, which was her name at the time, showed up on a "blacklist." she knew that that was not she. and that was as someone who was in hollywood that was part of the communist party. she wanted to get her name off. she told her good friend, who i believe was a producer, she said how can i get this done? they said ronald reagan as the president of the screen actor's guild. she said, as soon as i knew that, i knew who ronald reagan was. i said, absolutely, call him up. and i would be glad to meet with him. he said he would be glad to talk to her about this. and then one thing led to another. there was a meeting. then it became dinner. she really tells a funny story about how they both agreed to go to dinner but insisted it had to be an early evening because they had an early call, which neither one of the actually did. >> if the date doesn't work out, you can ended in a civil way, right? but they didn't ended early because they didn't have anywhere to be the next morning. >> that w

he's a bureaucratic communist party. again, no enforcing party dictates against -- >> later this afternoon the president will lead a whole entrepreneururip afternoon. that may be where some of the -- orlandoohe trade mission idea will come in. a lot of meeting with businesses talking about entrepreneurship and possibilities and then tonight it's the state dinner. >> there are about, i believe, adozen united states ceo it is, businessmen who are there this trip and then in addition to them ere are some very successful cuban-american businessmsm from miami. mike fernandez, carlos gutierrez, former commerce second under george w. bush among others, to take part in this seminar this afternoon on on -- >> and the thinking of course from some is that the opening of commerce may lead to the owning of ideas, although there are some who don't agree with that. but -- >> and, orlando, there already has been tremendous -- a tremendous number of businesses alreadad going in. the question is are they ready for it. >> this is a trade mi

the communist party. where did the customers go? you have to ask the communist party. business has been bad in the past year >> reporter: he is not alone. it has been a turbulent year. it is at its slowest in 25 years. the most important event in the political calendar is playing out though. china, the last communist nation has changed considerably over the last 30 years. 3,000 delegates from across the nation attend. a report on the last year was given. >> translation: there are still inadequacies in the market. >> reporter: he went on to say more work needs to be done on government corruption and misconduct and that it is not just china's economy that is slowing. it is dploebl >> reporter: this is the great hall. what will take place here for the next ten days for the most part is political theater. that is because how china are to be run has already been decided by financials >> it is place where they put out new messages for public consumption and then the meeting is actually discussing merely specifics of how to implement these things or maybe tweak it to make it

in september of 1960, the party, the communist party of north vietnam, held its third party congress in hanoi. that congress called for the creation of a front organization to undertake the subversion of south vietnam. three months after, the national liberation front was established to provide a political facade for the conduct of an active guerrilla war. beginning in 1960, the regime began to infiltrate into south vietnam. in the intervening time, these men had been trained in the arts of sabotage and subversion. now they were ordered to , conscript young men from the villages by force or persuasion and to form cadres around which guerrilla units could be built. all of this was documented by the legal committee. that body, established to supervise the vietnam cease-fire is composed of indian, polish, , and canadian members. the legal committee reported in 1962, there is evidence to show that arms, munitions and other , supplies have been sent from the zone in the north to the zone in the south with the objective of supporting, organizing and carrying out hostile activities includin

what i would say, i mean, my first book was on black women in the communist party. i don't want to say anyone's politics is self-evident by what they wrote on, but i very much believe that this current system does not work and has to be toppled. next, i think -- [laughter] can you work, can we both infiltrate, i think again i'm thinking of lenin and revolutions of both reform and revolution, how those forces operate dialectically. and in terms of the question on louise little, and thank you for the question. angela davis' autobiography, she talked about how so-called mental illness really has social roots, right? ask that it's very much -- and that it's very much a reflection of racism, poverty, what have you. cally gross, in her work on black women and criminalization by the state, the way in which the white state criminalizes and pathologizes black women and, therefore, because black women get deemed as being a criminal, therefore, that opens the door for their suppression. and i would say that was very much true with louise little. to be clear, again, her husband

friends a number of whom are schoolteachers were fired during that time for being communists 30 members are suspected party members and they weren't. by the time i came along with and was born into this not communist but very left-wing household in springfield massachusetts, that story but more broadly the fact that my grandparents were communists was kind of our own family mythology and i would say a fairly simplistic part of the mythology they work communist party members and that was a noble thing to be. that they were persecuted for that. their friends were persecuted for that. we went through this period is mccarthyism and that was his noble in their problem part of our legacy not examine very much. as they grew older in this not communist left-wing household in this committee in springfield massachusetts where he grew up of other leftists and probably marxist or communist that they wouldn't necessarily identify themselves as such i would say for a while it's a pretty simple narrative. as i got older it started to become more cop hated. i remember when i was in college i had a job, a student job but t

usa as the american communist party was known. she had known, lena doubtless would not have carried. she did not know a communist from a republican. [laughter] but in the 1950s, every performer who appeared at cafÉ society would be

unbeknownst to the patrons, caÉe society was a fund-raising outlet for the then legalot know communist party appeared if she had known, lena would not have care. she did not know communist from a republican. york where but in 19 fifties, every performer performer who appeared at cafÉ society would be blacklisted. now however she was able to bring me a little teddy to new york.ru where we all lived in the her childhood brooklyn home. teddy's visit was short-lived. there is a cruel divorce agreement that i would live with my mother while teddy would live with the father. but my mother and i were soon to live move further away. because of her's cafÉ society success she received an offer from hollywood, not from the movies,, but from a new nightclub. once again, she was an overnight sensation, one man who came night after night was mgm's roger ed, the man who discovered judy garland.appened talent in beauty one lena hollywood contract, the first first in hollywood for a black performer. it might not happen without world war ii. lena arrived in hollywood the same time that walter right of the naa

it is a bleak picture of a city firmly in the grip of chinese communist party control.that's in spite of the so-called one country two system's form of government that is supposed to guarantee hong kong a high level of autonomy. >> the two system is not work. oich believe freedom of speech >> reporter: production started before the umbrella movement street occupations of 2014 demanding greater political freedom. those events became would have been in parts of the film helping connect with a hong kong audience. >> some of the moment during the umbrella movement that as hong kong people we can never imagine. so i think the tone and the mood become a little bit pessimistic. >> it was a riot. >> reporter: events since then seem to confirm that pessimism. the street violence that happened at chinese new year which many believed was fumed by discontented youth. the case of the hong kong book sellers who produced works critical of china's leaders, detained and paraded on mainland television. the early screenings of the film have sold out in hong kong, made on a budget of less

it was signed: "loyal communist party members."soon after, a number of people, including well-known columnist jia jia, went missing, apparently as part of an investigation into the letter's origin. protesters in hong kong demanded to know his whereabouts. >> i think xi jinping stressed that china should be and will be ruled by law, but what happened in china after he is in power, he threatened, he arrests, kidnapped all kinds of activists from different part of civic society. journalists, lawyer, social worker are all his target. >> sreenivasan: columnist jia has since been released. we explore the internal divisions within china with: christopher johnson. he had a two decade career at the c.i.a. where he focused on china. he's now at the center for strategic and international studies. and andrew nathan is a professor at columbia university. he's the author and editor of many books including "the tiananmen papers." andrew, i want to start with you. how significant are these public letters, these internal dissents? >> i think they a

china's political elite are gathering to approve the communist party's 13 five-year plan. mounting pressure to find a balance between growth and reform. as well as improving the environment and secure stability. spent the last week accusing trump of being a con artist dismissed his immigration and foreign policies as un serious. ted cruz slammed the checks trump has written to boost hillary clinton's political career. senator cruz: who is best prepared to beat hillary clinton? checkstrump has written to hillary clinton not once not twice -- 10 times. and four of those checks were not to her senate campaign. it was not the cost of doing business. it was to her presidential campaign. german finance minister has made his feelings about potential brexit clear. wolfgang schaeuble was asked about it as he met with george osborne at the british chambers of commerce. >> what would germany do if the u.k. voted to leave the e.u.? >> we would cry. [laughter] [applause] but i hope we will not. look, it's a decision of the british people, of course. nejra: global news 24 hours a day po

. >> a former communist party boss let the country since it gained in dependence 25 years ago. last year he was elected president with 25% of the vote. his pop lieu labor party shows no sign of debating. in kazakhstan, the oil and gas industry constitutes 20-30% of vtc. but analysts say parliament has little influence over economic influence, and such issues will not factor in how people vote. >> parliament is not a large player, an important player. when we talk about economical life of kazakh ston. if you asked ordinary people. i believe the most part of them. they say that economical situation in kazakhstan. >> the economy is focussing on unity and stability. kazakhstan is a multiethnic country, russians make up 20% of the population, against the back drop of separatists, voters support the attempt to project a strong sense of national identity. international election monitors say kazakhstan never held a free and fair election, pointing to a lack of flourism come mated, as well as vote rigging and ballot stuffing >>> the president filed a complaint against allegations made. s

the communist party and the nazi party are growing.on't bring in the nazi party, maybe the communists come in. there is a dynamic of social panic. hitler does not have full power when he is chancellor. powern takes over full and nobody is willing to fight him. amy: then what happens. prof. paxton: then he becomes a dictator. he gets the parliament to pass a act, whichnabling allows them to govern without consulting parliament. he uses that to build an unbeatable machine. he does not bother to get it renewed -- he gets it renewed, but it is meaningless. he does what he wants. he has these huge rallies. he is successful in restoring the economy and in bringing german our -- power back. he has these delirious mass rallies and no one will dare try to stop him because it is either him or the communists. amy: the half-sister of anne f remarried --ank she was quoted as saying that of donald trump was elected the next president of the united states, it would be a complete disaster. she said, "i remember how upset the world was when the berlin

party in germany doing? how is it different than the communist and socialist parties that are all over europe, and does it have anything to do with co-ops? >> yes. the name of the party in germany is called the die linke. "die" is "the," and "linke" is the german word for "left." they didn't want there to be any ambiguity about where they were coming from, so they basically call themselves the left party, die linke, and it is a party that came together out of two other parties. first was the left wing of the social democratic party, the old established socialist party that has been in the government, has been the government. last leader of germany before angela merkel, the current leader, was a man named schroeder, and he was a member of the social democratic party in germany. the left wing under a very, very charismatic leader, which was important, a man named oskar lafontaine, withdrew from the socialist party in order--excuse me--to found this new party the die linke. the other part of the die linke is the party that used to be the dominant party in what was east germany. you know, the east german and west